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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a
pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free.
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Relativism / Subjectivism
Relativism – the doctrine or theory
that knowledge, truth, morality, etc., are relative and not absolute’. Oxford Dictionary
Subjectivism – The doctrine that
knowledge, perception, morality, etc., is merely subjective and relative and that there is no objective truth; a theory or method
based exclusively on subjective facts; the quality or condition of being subjective. Oxford
Dictionary
Peter: Recently I happened to have a conversation with a man of
similar age as I am about the generational changes that have occurred in the things that were once regarded as facts and ‘givens’
as opposed to what is being taught to the current generations. What we both observed was that there had been a marked swing from
an empirical, pragmatic view of the world of people, things and events towards what has been termed a post-modern view of the
world – a view that includes such notions as relativism, subjectivism, reductionism, anti-foundationalism, existentialism,
deconstructionism, scepticism, nihilism and so on.
Broadly speaking, postmodernism thinking has it that knowledge can
only be subjective in that an individual can only construct their own view of knowledge relative to their own particular time,
place, social position, etc., or to put succinctly that there is no such thing as objective knowledge and universally-verifiable
facts because knowledge can only ever be subjective.
With the majority of the people in the world being taught this view by
their parents, peers and teachers, it is little wonder that people have such difficulty in understanding something as objective,
simple, straightforward, pragmatic and down-to-earth as actualism is.
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